On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

On Naive and Sentimental Poetry (Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung) is a 1795 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world.


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